Holistic understanding of contemporary ecosystems requires integration of data on domesticated, captive and cultivated organisms

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dc.contributor.authorGroom, Quentinen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAdriaens, Timen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBertolino, Sandroen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorPhelps, Kendraen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorPoelen, Jorrit H.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorReeder, DeeAnn Marieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorRichardson, David M.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSimmons, Nancy B.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorUpham, Nathanen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-02T12:43:02Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-25T22:44:36Z
dc.date.available2021-07-02T12:43:02Z
dc.date.available2021-08-25T22:44:36Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-15
dc.descriptionCITATION: Groom, Q. et al. 2021. Holistic understanding of contemporary ecosystems requires integration of data on domesticated, captive and cultivated organisms. Biodiversity Data Journal, 9:e65371, doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e65371.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://bdj.pensoft.neten_ZA
dc.description.abstractDomestic and captive animals and cultivated plants should be recognised as integral components in contemporary ecosystems. They interact with wild organisms through such mechanisms as hybridization, predation, herbivory, competition and disease transmission and, in many cases, define ecosystem properties. Nevertheless, it is widespread practice for data on domestic, captive and cultivated organisms to be excluded from biodiversity repositories, such as natural history collections. Furthermore, there is a lack of integration of data collected about biodiversity in disciplines, such as agriculture, veterinary science, epidemiology and invasion science. Discipline-specific data are often intentionally excluded from integrative databases in order to maintain the “purity” of data on natural processes. Rather than being beneficial, we argue that this practise of data exclusivity greatly limits the utility of discipline-specific data for applications ranging from agricultural pest management to invasion biology, infectious disease prevention and community ecology. This problem can be resolved by data providers using standards to indicate whether the observed organism is of wild or domestic origin and by integrating their data with other biodiversity data (e.g. in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility). Doing so will enable efforts to integrate the full panorama of biodiversity knowledge across related disciplines to tackle pressing societal questions.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent19 pages : illustrationsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGroom, Q. et al. 2021. Holistic understanding of contemporary ecosystems requires integration of data on domesticated, captive and cultivated organisms. Biodiversity Data Journal, 9:e65371, doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e65371.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1314-2828 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1314-2836 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e65371
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/117058
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherPensoften_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectDarwin Coreen_ZA
dc.subjectContemporary ecosystemsen_ZA
dc.subjectIntroduced organismsen_ZA
dc.subjectUrban ecology (Sociology)en_ZA
dc.subjectGlobal Biodiversity Information Facilityen_ZA
dc.titleHolistic understanding of contemporary ecosystems requires integration of data on domesticated, captive and cultivated organismsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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